Word: chatterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political opposite is Zakaria Mohieddin, 52, former intelligence chief and a member of the original 14-man cabal that overthrew the monarchy. Mohieddin is an intellectual and Egypt Firster who favors a settlement with Israel and development of friendlier relations with the West; as a result, coffeehouse chatter brands him, unjustly but damningly, as "the C.I.A. candidate." When Nasser offered his calculated resignation following the Six-Day War, he named Mohieddin, then one of Egypt's three Vice Presidents, as his successor. Nasser quickly resumed his post and a year later, after a fallout over economic policy, Mohieddin went...
Powerful Monarch. Lunch, even on papal vacation, is devoted to business. While light courses of pasta, meat or fish, salad and fruit are served, Paul keeps up a lively chatter with his table companions, often including Papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot, who has a permanent apartment at the summer villa. After a 1½-hour siesta, there is more work: reading (and often writing marginalia in) the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and planning or writing important documents. Like his predecessors, Paul works long hours. An hour or so for prayer in the evening, some minutes...
Stacked up against the chatter about "death, judgment, heaven and hell," Last Things unfairly seems a disappointment, more of the same old mumble-and-mud-dle-through. From the very beginning, however, Snow has always had a positive genius for making the wrong promises. He presented himself as a bridge builder between "two cultures," though readers can get more science from Ray Bradbury than from Snow. And just how would one build a bridge from 20th century science to the 19th century novel?-which, after all, is what Snow has been writing...
...York doctor's son, a graduate of Amherst and a doctoral candidate in sociology and public administration at New York University, Durk once thought the practice of law might be his calling. He studied a year at Columbia Law School but disliked his classmates' chatter about money. In 1963, he became a cop for the same reasons he uses to persuade potential recruits. "The social potential of the policeman is incredible-self interest merges with public interest. If you dare to think about it," Durk says, "it's your last chance to be a knight errant...
...flying to New York by cocktail time, where he must perforce plug in his connections, drop his names, jiggle through a dance or two till he's in a position to float Valerie Corday onstage and steal away, leaving her twirling and whirling in a canned atmosphere of chatter and light...